Example sentences of "[adj] over [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they can learn to sustain this over a long while , The La 's would be world-shakers . |
| 2 | In this way , the mother provides her baby with more food over the period of its development than she would be able to pack into a single egg , and what is more , she can do this over a long period instead of being compelled to produce it all at one moment . |
| 3 | Since governments are unlikely to do this over the long term , this will not be a long-term source of excessive monetary growth . |
| 4 | My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Edinburgh , Pentlands ( Mr. Rifkind ) has made it unequivocally clear over a long period of years that he is wholly opposed to unilateral devolution , which is what the Bill proposes . |
| 5 | More serious over the longer run is whether capitalist economies can survive a period of sustained inflation . |
| 6 | So they will need to look for a company that is reliable and responsible over a long term , and offers a variety of ancillary services . ’ |
| 7 | The teachers , however , decided that we needed to be kept busy over the long weekend and gave us lots of work to do . |
| 8 | So if y if the chemicals will do that over a long period of time to rubber , think what it would do to your skin . |
| 9 | If stable over a longer period , the presence or absence of trimer structures at certain positions on a surface could act as bits of digital data . |
| 10 | Long-run stability of V. The main claim of monetarists is that the velocity of circulation ( V ) is relatively stable over the longer run , and any changes that do occur are the predictable outcome of institutional changes , such as the increased availability and use of credit cards . |
| 11 | Between close kin it was possible for the exchanges to be one-way over a longer term , one person a net ‘ giver ’ at a particular point in time because of a reasonable confidence that he or she could be a net ‘ receiver ’ at a later stage . |
| 12 | It is often preferable to offer the necessary quantity of food as two meals , morning and evening , so the dog 's stomach remains fuller over a longer period . |
| 13 | The second would be at the City Airport , where BA might offer attractive low fares , sustainable over a long time period by cross-funding from their worldwide profitable operation . |
| 14 | All the inverts that you are considering are suitable over the long term , but do steer clear of hard corals . |
| 15 | Anyway we 're going to go for trap two , Smoky Amber here , now she 's a bitch that is really , I think 's going to be something special over a longer trip , erm you know a longer distance , but she is only a March eighty nine so she 's not two yet . |
| 16 | The second attraction is that the Town and Country Planning Association is a fascinating case study of a pressure group that has been active over a long period . |